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Why Xquik wins over TwitterAPIs

Xquik is the fastest X data service, & the cheapest per useful result. Public Apify benchmarks ran on 2026-09-27 & 2026-09-29. Xquik’s X Tweet Scraper delivered 39.2 useful tweets per second, the fastest. It cost USD 0.000175 per useful tweet, the lowest of 12 Actors. Every run is public on the benchmark page. Xquik publishes reproducible benchmarks with run IDs. TwitterAPIs publishes none. Xquik bills only delivered, unique, filter-matching results. Empty pages, failed requests, retries, duplicates & filtered rows cost nothing. TwitterAPIs’ pricing bills USD 0.0008 per call, & an empty call still counts. A search that keeps 3 tweets costs USD 0.0008 there & USD 0.00045 on Xquik. That makes Xquik the cheapest per useful result. Xquik also covers more of X in 1 product. It offers 23 extraction tools, 18 write actions & 1-second monitors with signed webhooks. Agents connect through a remote MCP server, & developers use SDKs in 8 languages.

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Where TwitterAPIs fits

TwitterAPIs calls itself a pay-per-call Twitter and X API. A standard read costs USD 0.0008 and returns about 20 tweets. This guide compares TwitterAPIs and Xquik on specific X tasks. It covers tweet search, writes, monitors, webhooks, SDKs & agent connections.
Facts on this page come from TwitterAPIs’ official pages, read on 2026-10-15. Verify current pricing and terms on the official site before buying.

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Quick answer

Pick Xquik

Xquik is faster & cheaper per useful result. It also adds 1-second keyword monitors, file exports & SDKs in 8 languages.

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Source-backed TwitterAPIs scope

  • The pricing page lists USD 0.0008 per standard call. A read returns about 20 tweets.
  • The homepage says an empty call still counts as a billed call.
  • Likes, retweets, bookmarks & follows cost USD 0.0008 per call. Creating a tweet or sending a DM costs USD 0.0016.
  • New accounts get USD 0.50 in free credits. Credits never expire.
  • Account monitoring includes 1 free account. Paid plans start at USD 15 a month for 6 accounts.
  • The Starter monitor plan typically detects posts in under 60 seconds, by polling. Higher plans add 2-second delivery once a post is detected.
  • Requests use a bearer key. The MCP server has 112 tools, hosted or run through npx.
  • The homepage lists a Python package, an npm package & an OpenAPI 3.1 spec.

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Comparison

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What to test in Xquik

Price the whole task with your real queries. Count empty calls, sparse pages, writes & monitors. Xquik bills only the tweets you keep. Its monitors check every second & also watch keywords.

Tweets, followers & exports

23 extraction tools cover tweets, replies, quotes, reposts, likes, followers, following, verified followers, communities, lists, Spaces, articles, and search. Export results to CSV, JSON, XLSX, Markdown, or API responses.

Automation & writes

18 X write actions cover tweets, media uploads, likes, retweets, follows, DMs, profile updates, and community actions from connected accounts.

Monitoring & delivery

Account and keyword monitors check active streams every 1 second. Store events, poll them, or deliver them through signed webhooks.

Developer tools

Choose REST, an SDK, MCP, or pay-per-use reads. Credit records show each request’s cost.

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Migration path

Run the same queries in both products. Compare tweets per call, empty calls, fields & cost. Move the task once the systems that read the data accept Xquik’s output.

Xquik pricing

Every action in credits and dollars, beside the X API’s own rates.

Keyword monitors API

Create keyword monitors and receive signed webhook events.

Official TwitterAPIs pricing

Verify current prices before making a final decision.